It’s crazy sitting around watching the collapse of society.

Unfortunately, societies do this. It's part of the cycle. The insanities which are there from the beginning can be kept in check during the growth phase, but once resource growth is no longer sufficient to distract people with shiny new widgets, we dive into the insanities full time and go nuts.

Our current iteration is being accelerated particularly badly because of the effects of modern bio-agents (including in our foods and most importantly our "medicines" - psychoactive particularly) literally destroying cognitive function. Our broader emotional landscape is a hot mess of confusion because our brains are being turned to jelly by the chemicals we are exposing ourselves to / being exposed to.

Doing our best within our own spheres and knowing that we're creating the best environment around ourself that we can, we have to form a thick skin and watch the rest of the insanity that we cannot control from a distance.

It is indeed crazy.

I don't subscribe to the idea that humans have meaningfully "progressed". We've created a lot of technologies which make things happen faster and accelerate material manipulation of our environment, but to call that progress is a logical link I don't accept.